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From: Hsiu Che Yu <yu.whisper.personal@gmail.com>
To: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
Cc: "Hsiu Che Yu" <yu.whisper.personal@gmail.com>,
	"Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>,
	"Lorenzo Stoakes" <ljs@kernel.org>,
	"Vlastimil Babka" <vbabka@kernel.org>,
	"Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
	"Uladzislau Rezki" <urezki@gmail.com>,
	"Miguel Ojeda" <ojeda@kernel.org>,
	"Boqun Feng" <boqun@kernel.org>, "Gary Guo" <gary@garyguo.net>,
	"Björn Roy Baron" <bjorn3_gh@protonmail.com>,
	"Benno Lossin" <lossin@kernel.org>,
	"Andreas Hindborg" <a.hindborg@kernel.org>,
	"Alice Ryhl" <aliceryhl@google.com>,
	"Trevor Gross" <tmgross@umich.edu>,
	rust-for-linux@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rust: alloc: add doc test for `Vec::from_elem`
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:08:30 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <69eee141.170a0220.269ea4.eb23@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DI3417MXPI5F.1DMTUFZULXTUF@nvidia.com>

On Sun, Apr 26, 2026 at 10:11:01PM +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
>I don't think there is any hard rule, but usually a patch series implies
>a dependency between the patches, i.e. patch 2 cannot build without
>patch 1. For what you sent so far this is not the case, so separate
>patches is fine and maybe even preferable as they can be applied
>individually whereas maintainers tend to consider series as "all or
>nothing" (there are exceptions of course).

I think I now understand the distinction between a patch series and
individual patches. For independent changes, I'll just send them as
separate patches.

On Sun, Apr 26, 2026 at 10:11:01PM +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
>No worries. If I may recommend b4 [1] for managing your patch series, it
>ususally just does the right thing for you.
>
>[1] https://b4.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/

I've just started using b4, and it has been really helpful — it takes
care of a lot of things that previously required juggling multiple tools.

Thanks,
Hsiu

      reply	other threads:[~2026-04-27  4:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-26  3:46 [PATCH] rust: alloc: add doc test for `Vec::from_elem` Hsiu Che Yu
2026-04-26  4:05 ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-04-26  4:27   ` Hsiu Che Yu
2026-04-26 13:11     ` Alexandre Courbot
2026-04-27  4:08       ` Hsiu Che Yu [this message]

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